TASC-SwinMT: Task-Adaptive Synergistic Cross-Task Swin Multi-Task Framework for CT and MRI Image Interpolation and Segmentation.

Background

Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) interpolation and segmentation are critical for clinical diagnosis, anatomical quantification and personalized treatment. Most existing methods perform these two tasks separately, leading to computational redundancy and insufficient mining of shared spatial features. This study aims to construct an integrated multi-task learning framework for the synchronous processing of medical image interpolation and segmentation.

Methods

We propose a unified multi-task framework named TASC-SwinMT for joint interpolation and multi-frame segmentation of CT and MRI images. It employs a shared SwinUNet encoder to extract general spatial features, matched with two task-specific decoders for frame prediction and mask generation. Three functional modules are designed for cross-task synergistic learning, and a dynamic multi-task loss function is used to balance objective optimization. Experiments are performed on Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task02_Heart and Task06_Lung datasets.

Results

Our method outperforms baseline models and ablation variants in both tasks with outstanding accuracy and significantly reduced computational overhead. It exhibits superior performance in lesion boundary depiction, small object segmentation and inter-slice consistency, and anatomical prior constraints with frequency-domain modeling further enhance prediction quality.

Conclusions

The cross-task feature sharing and joint optimization strategy are validated effective. The proposed TASC-SwinMT framework has favorable stability and generalization ability, providing a reliable solution for clinical medical image analysis.